Washington · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,362 to it, the largest being RENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN ($25,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Children's Institute for Learning Differ does
Mission
To provide innovative school programs, therapies, and training that promote social, emotional, and academic growth for children with severe learning and behavioral challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child provides therapeutic interventions to reach children who would otherwise continue to fail at school. The goal of all child programs is to align the efforts of children, their families and school personnel to increase understanding of learning differences and help children overcome the obstacles to their learning, so they are able to successfully transition back to school programs in their home communities.at child, the focus is on developing a set of durable core strengths - increased levels of self-regulation, an increased ability to maintain relationships, and increased coping skills - to help children achieve ongoing resilience. During the 2023-2024 school year child served 67 students.child employs a project-based curriculum where integrated arts, music, videography and outdoor education are all part of our core programming.credentialed/licensed teachers, mental health counselors, occupational therapists and speech/language pathologists develop and implement activities sequenced over time to help children master behavioral and sensory challenges.since 1977, we have successfully educated children with a range of conditions that interfere with learning, including:…
$4,764,792 spent$7,514,100 earned by the program86% of program spendingChild provides school-based occupational therapy, speech therapy, and mental health counseling services to students who are enrolled in our school program and have therapy services as part of their individual education program. During the 2023-2024 school year child provided 1,860 hours of individual therapy and 1,219 hours of group-based therapy to our students.one of the three pillars of our core programming, the goal of sensory-based occupational therapy is to enable children to accurately detect, regulate, and interpret sensations and match those sensations with the execution of appropriate motor and behavioral responses so that children are able to perform everyday activities in a more adaptive and functional manner.child provides speech and language evaluation, individualized treatment and ongoing therapy for students in the following areas: auditory processing, phonological processing, language, apraxia, articulation, literacy, voice, and assistive technology.
$774,410 spent$395,707 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,539,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8.9M to $10.0M (+12%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Carreen Fannin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $12k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
61% of CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER?
- CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,362 to it, the largest being RENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN ($25,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $63,362 in grants to CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER?
- RENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN is the largest funder on record, with $25,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DIFFER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing